<p>I was looking at the prerequisites needed for medical school. It seems like a lot of them would be covered with a bachelors in bioengineering. I also noticed that U.C. Berkeley and U.C. San Diego have a "pre-med" variation of bioengineering. Does anybody know if these two programs do in-fact cover all the prerequisites needed? The required courses are 2 semesters of physics, biology, math, and chemistry. Also to get excepted into medical school, you have to have computational and writing skills. I'm guessing that a bachelors in bioengineering will cover that a bit as well.</p>
<p>From what I understand, many med schools today are trying to broaden their incoming classes with students whom not necessarily have a transcript chock full (or exclusively) of Life Science courses. They certainly want applications to have the basics, i.e. the foundational biology sequence and a solid foundation in mathematics. Check the requirements for your specific target med school.</p>
<p>You should check with premed groups in the school. You usually cover many of the requirements but not all.</p>
<p>The current requirements go along the lines of one year each of physical and organic chemistry with at least one course of biochemistry, one year of biology with labs, one year of physics, one year of Math and English. You will definitely be covered by most bioeng for biology and math and some physics but not all of chemistry.</p>
<p><a href=“http://revelle.ucsd.edu/_files/academics/curriculum/premed-brochure.pdf[/url]”>http://revelle.ucsd.edu/_files/academics/curriculum/premed-brochure.pdf</a></p>
<p>I found the above by googling. If you can find a 4 year program, you should compare to see what is automatically covered.</p>